TizianadeRogatis (Ph.D. University of Perugia 1999) is Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian
Literature at the Università per Stranieri di Siena, where she teaches comparative literature. Her doctoral thesis, on Eugenio Montale and other European poets from the
1920s to the 1940s, was published as Montale e il classicismo moderno in 2002. In 2011, she published an edition of Montale's Le occasioni and, in 2012, Mappe del
tempo: Eugenio Montale e T. S. Eliot.

The present focus of her research is on feminine identity and the
mother/daughter bond, examined through the lens of a comparison between classical mythology and twenty-first century Italian and English literature.As partof the comparisonbetween classical and modern, shehas also proposeda contemporary rewrite of Aeneidfortwo plays(SegestaAeneid, greek Theaterof
Segesta,8/16/2008; Aeneas:fateand feelings,Bolzano's City Theatre, 19-11-2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGgzZ4UZpTw).